And by-and-bye reached Phasis, ne'er o'erta'en

By those in-rushing rocks, that have not stirred

Since then, but bask, twin monsters, on the main.

But now, when waned the spring, and lambs were fed

In far-off fields, and Pleiads gleamed overhead,

That cream and flower of knighthood looked to sail.

They came, within broad Argo safely stowed,

(When for three days had blown the southern gale)

To Hellespont, and in Propontis rode

At anchor, where Cianian oxen now